Friday, August 3

10E2016: Book Wars

I have not been to this particular local book club yet but they have a great idea for discussions; book wars. Brilliant. Paraphrased as below.

Read books by authors who were also rivals and compare the works.

A pair that springs to mind is Faulkner vs.
Hemingway.
Faulkner: "He has never been known to use a word that might send
a reader to the dictionary."
Hemingway: "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."

Or Mario Vargas Llosa vs. Gabriel Garcia
Marquez? The former once punched the latter in the face, and no one quite knows
why (http://www.mentalflos...)